Highway - Redevelopment of rue de l'Eglise

✓The Safety and Health Plan itself does not list quantities of works but refers to the main activities: earthworks and trenches, utilities coordination, demolition, placement of road elements and asphalt, handling of heavy and light loads, operations in trenches deeper than 1.20 m, and interactions with concessionaires/utility companies.

✓As such, the “where” is clearly defined (public road in Brussels-Capital Region), and the “when” is indicated through obligations to provide a work planning and activity schedule regularly throughout the works, and a prior notification (DUC/Checkin@work registration) for construction sites over €500,000 (excl. VAT).

✓After provisional acceptance, companies must provide all “as built” plans and technical datasheets, including a copy for the safety coordinator, via the architect.

❓Award criteria and weighting are not described in the extracted text.

✓The Safety and Health Plan only sets conditions for admissibility of bids (for example, missing or unsigned safety forms making an offer invalid) and obligations during execution.

❓Any economic/quality award criteria, such as price weighting, qualitative criteria or environmental criteria, would have to be found in other parts of the tender specifications; they are not specified here.

✓The text extensively covers risks and special conditions applicable to the contractor and any subcontractors.

✓It lists many risks and corresponding prevention measures, such as accidents with third parties, poor management of simultaneous activities, falls from height and on level ground, handling injuries, falling materials, impalement on reinforcement bars, noise, vibration, exposure to dangerous products, quartz dust (classified as a dangerous CMR agent), and asbestos.

✓It specifies obligations such as: using shoring/blindage when trenches or pits reach/exceed 1.20 m depth, ensuring protective measures (rails, PPE) around dangerous zones and trenches, signalling and fencing the site, providing adequate lighting day and night, properly labelling and storing dangerous products according to CLP Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 and the Belgian Code for well-being at work, and obtaining a pre-existing asbestos inventory from the client before starting work.

✓Special coordination conditions are given for underground utilities: the contractor must proactively consult the municipality and relevant utility companies, locate all underground/high-voltage installations, work manually near them, keep a 1 m safety distance from buried HT cables, and coordinate timing and protection of trenches with concessionaires; any damage to installations is repaired at the contractor’s expense.

✓There are also obligations to submit traffic and signage plans to the contracting authority and to the territorially competent police, comply with the Ministerial Decision of 7 May 1999 and the Brussels Ordinance of 3 May 2018 on road works, and maintain copies of police-approved signalling plans on site.

✓The contractor must take all necessary precautions and execute shoring to keep traffic flowing on existing, temporary or new roads, avoid damage to nearby buildings and trees, and intervene in legal proceedings if the contracting authority is sued for such damages.

✓With regard to subcontracting, the plan explicitly states that companies working with subcontractors remain responsible for the safety and measures taken by those subcontractors.

❓Penalties, guarantees, offer validity period, question deadlines, and site visits are not mentioned in this text and would be defined elsewhere in the tender documents.

✓On contradictions or corrections within the documents, the text is largely consistent, with the French and Dutch versions mirroring each other.

✓Statements about obligations at tender stage (document referring to the safety plan, separate safety price calculation, signed declaration of intent, required content of PPSS/BVGP) are repeated but aligned in both languages.

✓Where there are cross-references to legislation, the plan emphasises that any circulars or additional rules apply only insofar as they do not contradict more recent ordinances (such as the Brussels Ordinance on underground cables and pipelines).

✓In practice, such as for the obligation to obtain utility location information and coordinate trench works, the more specific, updated Brussels ordinances prevail where they would otherwise conflict with older circulars.

✓The document does not present explicit internal contradictions; when a topic is duplicated (for example, trench protection or lighting and enclosure of sites), the later passages confirm and detail the earlier ones rather than compete.